A Study of the Reaction between CH₃ and NO at High Temperatures

Abstract

The reaction between CH3 and NO was investigated behind incident shock waves at temperatures between 1470 K and 2040 K. Using an Ar‐ion‐laser pumped cw ring dye laser hydroxyl radicals were found to be a primary product of this reaction. The rate constant for the OH forming channel can be expressed by At temperatures around 2000 K the contribution of the “OH channel” to the total rate constant of the reaction CH3 + NO is about 40%.

Combustion Chemistry of Nitrogen

“…Hennig-Wagner (1994) HCN + H2O --+-- Hoffmann et al (1990) H2CN + significantly lower than observed. Davies et al (1991) encountered a similar difficulty in analyzing the falloff regime and had to invoke unusually efficient energy transfer to account for their data.…”